Oh, what do you do in the summertime...

Me, Skyler, Mark, Kelsey and Logan

We went to the Air show at Hill Airforce. We went there mostly to see the Thunderbirds perform. They were awesome!

Kelsey and Logan, waiting for the show to start.

Skyler and Mark by some old plane. Skyler thought he would solute in every picture, we don't know why, but it was pretty funny. (Note: see Marks wheel chair, with that and his handi cap parking pass, we got great parking right next to the gate... Thanks Mark!) I tried to get some pictures of the thunderbirds, but they flew too fast, and I could never quite catch them in my pictures! Must be the camera... or probably the photographer. ha ha. Thanks to my sister Melinda who must be a better photographer, and took the top picture of the two jets.

Our favorite place to visit in the summer, is SUMMER SNOW. It has hands down the best shave ices around. I always get the usual, half cherry, half grape. Skyler tries something different everytime. We already have one punch card filled up. If you haven't ever tried one, I highly recommend one. WARNING... you may become addicted.


The otheer BIG thing we have done so far this summer, was to go to the REO SPEEDWAGON/STYX concert. Mark and I went with my brother Rob and his wife Laurie. We stopped for dinner on the way up to the RIO Tinto stadium in Salt lake. It was a rockin night. I had forgotten how fun concerts are, especially outdoor ones.

I LOVE SUMMER!

Koster's Rehabilitaion Center

This past week and a half have been sort of crazy here at our house. On the 14th Mark went in for surgery on his hip. He has had problems with it for quite some time. Through an MRI,they found torn cartiledge and tendons in there, so they went in to repair the damage. They had to dis-locate the hip in order to get to the damage. When they got in there, They found a "crater" in his bone, that was causeing the tearing. The cut a section of bone out, filled it with bone wax ( whatever that is) repaired the tears then put it all back together with two long screws. We do have tons of pictures of the surgery. I could scan them in, but I will spare you the grossness. He's as good as new....Well almost. We have 3-4 months of no weight or pressure on the hip. He stayed in the hospital for 3 days, then we brought him home. We moved Skyler's twin bed into the family room, and set up a place for him to rest. We have a home nurse who comes in every few days to check on him as well as a physical therapist.

Kelsey had her gall bladder removed last Tuesday, and joined the make shift hospital room. The funny thing is, Logan came down with strep on Wednesday. Ok, It probably wasn't funny to Logan, but what else could I do but laugh, and say... NEXT!
As I was getting Skyler off to school on Thursday, he said' Mom, Me and you are the only healthy ones in our house!"

The good news is, Logan is much better, and Kelsey is on the mend and doing much better. Mark on the other hand, well if you know Mark, its going to be a loooong summer for all of us.

To view our "hospital room" visit this...
Thanks for the phone calls, visits, and support. Logan for giving Mark his daily shots, Nicole for the "drug runs" to Walgreens, Skyler for retrieving popsicles, Kelsey for being such a great patient, Jody and Katrina at work for being there to get me through my meltdown at work. Chaz for keeping our lawn mowed. How Blessed am I to have such wonderful support!

007---The new Bond

The other night, Skyler thought he would dress up, and be "special agent S". He came down stairs dressed in his suit and had a gun and binoculars. He went and cut one of my tulips and pinned it to his lapel. It was a secret spy camera and microphone. Later he was found in the tree "spying" on the neighbor boys playing ball. Oh, to have the imagination of a child!

Back Home!

Can't you just tell by this picture one reason I am so happy Logan and Kelsey have moved back home... NEVER ENDING FUN!!!

Logan and Kelsey have come back home at least for the summer, for Kelsey, and longer for Logan. Here are just a few reasons I just love having them home...

1- The smell of them baking yummy treats.

2- Their laughter

3- Kelsey singing

4- Having their friends over

5- Their always willingness to help out with Skyler

6- The spirit that they always carry, flows over into our home... I love it!

Although I know I can't keep them home forever, I am going to take it all in, and enjoy every minute of it!

Mom....I love you

Here's a conversation that I had with Skyler in the car tonight...

Sky- Mom...(long pause)... I Love You. Sometimes I just say I Love You because I forgot what I was going to say.

Me- That's ok, you can say I love you all the time if you want.

Sky- Don't you think it would be really annoying if I said "I Love You" over and over all day long?

I hope 10 years from now, he will still tell me he loves me... even if it is sometimes because he forgot what to say!

These eggs are to DYE for!

Easter weekend was a whirlwind of activities that left me wondering "where did the weekend go?"

Here are are the highlights of the weekend. The pictures are in no certain order.

It started with the every holiday tradition of making sugar cookies. I made over 100 cookies and 2 dozen cupcakes. The cupcakes were for Skyler's 1st grade class Easter party. The cookies all went to Friends, family and 3 work places...(Michaels, Arrowstar Const., and Dr. Parkinsons).

Saturday morning we had the annual Easter egg hunt at my sister Melinda's house. there were plenty of eggs, and lots of fun.

Sunday was the best. The Easter bunny found our house, and even had a little baby blanket for baby Mia. (aren't grandmas supposed to spoil the grandkids?) All my kids were here for dinner, and we had my parents over as well. I love having my family all together, lots of food, laughing and good memories.

Here's to first's...

So, Here is my attempt at blogging. Being that I am pretty much computer challenged, this will be interesting, so here goes...

I decided that my FIRST blog would be about my FIRST daughter, Logan Marie. Today is her 25th birthday. She is always willing to help out, talented, smart, beautiful, amazing, and an angel in every sense of the word. I love you LOGAN!